For me, Eberron > FR. Don't even know what it is about FR, I like a number of the elements, but just never appealed.
That said, you can run a low-level game without input from the Mary-Sues of the place. I've been a player in one, for a short period of time (life took over, it was an OpenRPG game), and I read the logs for a while afterwards. It's really easy to avoid Elminster and Drizz't - don't introduce them. Seriously, why does Elminster care about bunch of goblinoids out the back of Whoop-Whoop? If the PCs don't take care of it, some other level 6's will. Only at about level 10+ that Elminster and Drizz't should start playing any sort of role. Much as you might like your level 2, Drizz't's never heard of him. It's FR, there's thousands of level 2's wandering about.